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| Wed, 05-05-2004 - 7:00pm |
Hello !
Sorry I have been slighty off the radar lately...had a bad week last week, sort of. Kyle has been off with a friend quite a bit (but at least the house stays clean)and I had a PANIC ATTACK of all things on Friday afternoon...I hate those...haven't had one in a long time. HELLO, Ativan !
Then I was in MA all weekend until Monday...Taught my 16 y.o brother how to drive a stick shift...I swear I wouldn't have been one bit surprised if I was walking past my car later and it opened a door and nailed me flat all by itself...Hey, the clutch didn't fall out and it still works....But I think it gave me a dirty look this morning.
So on the way back to NH, I stop at Old Navy and get more tops, and went to JCPenney's for a bra. Well, I bought 3, and am now a 36B/C ! Where'd they go ? Hell-ooo boobs! Here, boobieboobieboobies! I was a 38D just last month ! As long as I don't need an electron microscope to see them I guess I'll just have to live with it.
I'm getting to the point, really...
So I go see the dietician yesterday, the one I've been kvetching about and wants me thinner than a rail...And she weighs me and I've lost 16 pounds since the day she saw me. I gave her my cholesterol sheet and told her how it went down 80 points and she was off the charts ecstatic! She went NUTS! She said I looked wonderful and we talked about a goal weight. I said I was looking at 145 because I felt that 135 was too thin. She then said something that I found VERY interesting.
She said that 135 was my IDEAL weight for 5'7, but probably not my REASONABLE one. Huh? She asked me at what weight after the age of 18, as an adult, did I feel I looked my best at. I said when I graduated, at 160. I had bones and crap sticking out everywhere. I then reminded her that I weighed 128 at 5'5 and 12 years old. She told me that if I was never 135 as an adult at any point, there was no way I could reach that weight and maintain it without starving myself and looking TOO SKINNY. She said that if I wanted to lose more, to NOT go below 150-155. ( Yer $h*tting me!?!?! I haven't heard the phrase 'too skinny' and the subject of my body used together in the same sentence, EVER!)
WOOO-HOOO!!!! I never ever considered the concept that if I weighed 128 as a pre-teen, then getting to a weight just 7 pounds (as a fully developed adult) above that was crazy. I was completely unaware that an adult body weight is different than a child's. I just thought weight was WEIGHT, you know ? As an adult, the lowest I remember weighing was 160. My family remembers me at that weight and says I look better now.
So, ladies, think about that when planning a goal weight....It really changed my perspective on what I really should weigh. (I KNEW 135 was too low a weight for me...)
I am so relieved...and IMAGINE what my cholesterol would have been had I excersized !
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARK!
Amy

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you are so close to goal! I bet you looked fabulous in that outfit!!!
sarah
Sarah
They believe that my metabolism slowed because I really don't eat enough calories or carbs for my activity level. GASP take that calorie guru!! Now that I am being made to eat more and incorporating all food groups I am starting to burn a bit more. I can say though that the last month has somewhat messed me up again since I did skip meals.
Doc likes that idea of 165 but if I just get down to 180 she would be just as happy. I have a pretty nice sized german bone structure and figure. Anything less than 165 and we all agree I would look unhealthy. Funny that is still 20-30 pounds over that asinine gov't optimal weight chart.
I hate my heart issues but I have to live with them. By the way it is bothering me today must mean more humidty in the air. I have irregular heart rhythm and mitral prolaypse which is a sign of a bivalve instead of the trivalve that is normal. Of course some of these things we will never know unless they go in and that is no where near going to happen. Now if I follow my dad I can have NATURALLY blocked arties. Naturally!!??? go figure. Give you a heads up on my dad...he had a double by pass, over half of his arota was replaced and tucked, and his main valve replaced with a mechanical one. Again, no high blood pressure or high cholestral. He was in great condition except for the birth defect called his heart.
I hear you about blood pressure dropping. I have that problem and I already have low blood pressure.
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